The paper is Article 2 of the Pali-Psycho series. It extends the empirical comparison axis of Article 1 into a broader systematic-exegetical framework: Abhidhamma taxonomy, Satipatthana and Anapanasati practice architecture, Jhana phenomenology, dependent origination, sociology of the Sangha, theology, literary reception, and modern cognitive-scientific comparison points. The central result is...
Abstract Consciousness science has produced increasingly sophisticated accounts of neural ignition, information integration, recurrent processing, predictive regulation, higher-order representation, interoception, and embodied cognition. Yet a common condition shared by virtually every serious biological candidate for consciousness has not been treated with equal explicitness: the candidate is...
Toward a Substrate–Process–Output Loop Model Yasin Birinci aka Steve Walker Independent Researcher Abstract This paper proposes a hypothesis-stage framework distinguishing three concepts that are frequently conflated in informal discussions of consciousness: randomness, entropy, and complexity. Building on existing work in integrated information theory, dissipative structure theory, and the...
This essay argues that under current and foreseeable computational paradigms, there is noknown pathway from functional information processing to subjective experience. Whethera future, non-biological system could possess consciousness remains an open metaphysicalquestion, but the burden of proof lies with those who claim it is possible. The essaydistinguishes a weak and a strong version of the...
Minds make things up and treat some of what they make up as real. A person invents a tune and knows it is an invention, yet the same person may hold that there is a god behind the sky and treat that not as a thing made but as a feature of the world. This paper asks why a mind of a certain architecture does this, and whether an artificial mind of the same architecture would. It applies an...
There is no direct evidence for therapies specifically targeting vivid dreams from antidepressant use. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Imagery Rehearsal Therapy, and certain medications are viable options derived from broader contexts of nightmare treatment.
Background: Diabetes distress (DD) is common psychosocial issue among adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and is associated with maladaptive coping, inadequate self-care practices and suboptimal glycemic control. Despite the high prevalence of DD among adults with T2DM in Pakistan, psychosocial screening and supportive interventions are not well integrated into routine care....
Abstract: Analytic idealism individuates minds by dissociation: a perspective with a private interior is an alter, bounded off from mind-at-large. Kastrup marks where this happens with a metabolism criterion — life is the extrinsic image of a process with an inside. This essay asks whether metabolism is the only way to form an interior, or one instance of a more general condition. The...
This article traces the evolution of Indian philosophical thought across seven historically distinct turning points: the Rigvedic period's focus on cosmic consciousness (Purusha, Brahman, Agni); the Upanishadic revolution's inward turn and the emergence of Brahman-Atman identity; the Shramana revolt of the 6th century BCE in which Buddhism and Jainism redirected Indian thought toward physical...
Abstract: The apparent conflict between consciousness science and consciousness-first metaphysics is largely an artifact of ontological packaging rather than of the empirical findings themselves. Contemporary theories of consciousness — IIT, Global Workspace, predictive processing, Higher-Order Theories, Recurrent Processing, Attention Schema Theory, Orch OR, and others — each package a...
This article examines a cluster of five idiosyncratic technical terms — Ren-Kha, Sefi-Ra, Kap-Ele, Ked-Ur, and Ain-Sakh — found in an unpublished early-twentieth-century Russian esoteric manuscript provisionally titled Conversations of the Old Priest. Drawing on six years of research into the manuscript, and on systematic cross-referencing against the major published corpora of Russian and...
This hypothesis paper proposes that psychosis preserves an individuals native cognitive architecture while disrupting reality attribution. Building on predictive processing, dreaming, and the Cognitive Languages framework, it suggests that the phenomenology of psychotic experience reflects the brain's pre-existing representational systems rather than a completely new mode of cognition. The...
The aim of this study is to examine the concept of "immediate experience" in the philosophy of F. H. Bradley, one of the prominent figures of British Idealism, and to re-evaluate the philosophical problems it generates within the context of contemporary philosophy of mind. According to Bradley, immediate experience is a primary, non-relational unity that precedes thought, judgment, and the...
A personal essay collection and structured knowledge graph mapping the three major Buddhist Abhidharma traditions (Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, Yogācāra) onto contemporary frameworks in computational phenomenology — predictive processing, active inference, Global Workspace Theory, Parallel Distributed Processing, and related approaches. Comprises sixteen essays (eight themes × English + Japanese),...
Mediumistic experience occupies a contested position at the intersection of neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, religious studies, philosophy of mind, and consciousness research. Reports of communication with deceased persons, ancestors, deities, spirits, or other nonordinary intelligences recur across historical periods and cultural settings, often involving voice-hearing, sensed presence,...
HIV/AIDS is not only a chronic medical condition but also a profound psychological and social challenge that affects emotional well-being, self-esteem, and quality of life. Alongside Anti-retroviral therapy (ART), holistic approaches are increasingly recognized as valuable tools for improving mental health and promoting resilience among people living with HIV/AIDS. Yoga, an ancient mind body...
Fourth paper in the Consciousness series. This paper argues that any theory of consciousness which converts a structural description into a verdict on the presence or absence of phenomenal experience incurs a structural cost: an identification of structural measure with experience (the "equals sign"). This cost is incurred by any verdict on presence, whether positive (identity) or negative...
This working paper proposes the Inward Closure Hypothesis as a coherence-based bridge condition for conscious experience. It argues that consciousness should not be understood as raw information entering awareness, nor merely as information processed by a system, but as information internally held within a self-maintaining field of identity, distinction, binding, self-reference, and repair. The...
This paper offers a theoretical analysis of disruption, recovery, foreclosure, and viable transformation. Psychological theory and popular discourse often treat breakdown, crisis, catharsis, or the collapse of an established self-understanding as inherently transformative. Against this assumption, the paper argues that disruption is not intrinsically generative. Breaking an old structure can...
Background: Burnout in corporate settings is increasingly understood as a chronic occupational stresssyndrome marked by emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy. At thephysiological level, sustained workplace strain is associated with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal(HPA) axis dysregulation, sympathetic nervous system (SNS) dominance, and measurable changes...
We state clean consistency constraints on any descriptive (structural) mathematical theory of phenomenal consciousness. Let the configuration space \(U\) of physically realizable systems be connected (under admissible deformations) and let a descriptive theory deliver a symmetry\-invariant scalar \(p:U [0,1]\) (a ``phenomenality score'') together with an optional crisp classifier \(P= {1}\{p...
Hegel’s philosophy presents self-consciousness, negation, and social recognition as the driving forces of mind’s development and the pinnacle of Spirit’s self-realization. In this view, the narrative, self-relating subject is not a defect but the crowning achievement of reality coming to know itself. By contrast, contemplative traditions and certain phenomenological models treat the narrative,...
This paper argues that a recurring achievement of scholarly writing is the transformation of complexity into a simple, illuminating insight. Taking Edsger W. Dijkstra’s claim that simplicity is a virtue requiring discipline and education as its point of departure, the paper distinguishes shallow simplification, which removes difficulty, from realized simplicity, which preserves depth while...
This position paper advances a conceptual analysis of functional self-modeling---a form of self-aware agency distinct from phenomenal consciousness---drawing on insights from global workspace theory (GWT), predictive processing (PP), and embodied sensorimotor theory. As a position paper, we do not present a validated theory or an implemented system; rather, we articulate a structured conceptual...
Recent advances in neuroscience have significantly improved our understanding of correlations between neural activity and conscious states. However, subjective experience itself cannot be directly observed from an external perspective, and it remains debated whether neural descriptions alone are sufficient to fully explain its nature. This paper argues that several methodological blind spots...